Breastfeeding Telephone Triage and Advice - Softcover

Bunik M.D., Dr. Maya

9781610021975: Breastfeeding Telephone Triage and Advice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610021975 ISBN 13: 9781610021975

Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2018

Created by a leading breastfeeding and phone care practitioner, this newly revised problem-solver helps nurses, lactation professionals, and other medical staff confidently advise breastfeeding mothers. It is ideal for use with the acclaimed Pediatric Telephone Protocols.

Key features include
- Completely updated and revised
- Enhanced from black-and-white to more than 50 illuminating color photos to help triage professionals zero in on caller problems
- More information included on maternal depression, which a high risk for early cessation
- New protocols on child care policies/suggestions, separate from returning to work and early weight loss at birth hospital, first week
- Stresses the importance of support groups vs. the abundance of apps and blogs that perpetuate myths

Important content updates include:
- Swaddling and safe sleep added to co-sleeping protocol
- More information on tongue tie
- Update on idiopathic granular mastitis and breast pain
- Caution in exclusive pumping protocol
- New chart on donor human mild vs commercial fortifiers
- New chart on making the office breastfeeding friendly
- Early weight loss graphs and information added to the low milk supply protocol
- Special circumstances added like placental encapsulation, tattoos, etc.

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About the Author:

Maya Bunik, MD, MSPH, FABM, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of the Primary Care Teaching Clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado. As a practicing pediatrician, she has been helping mother-baby pairs with breastfeeding for more than 25 years. Her experience also includes serving as medical director of the Pediatric Advice Line Call Center at Children’s Hospital Oakland.

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